Natalie Pollard just opened Small Terrain in West Asheville, a gardening and landscape shop for new homesteaders.

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Some of the items featured in the new urban homestead supply and design shop in West Asheville hail from her wish list. Those products that would have made past projects easier. And the future ones possible.

Others are articulations of memories: The business is somewhat cobbled from the scrapbook of her life, from the childhood summers spent chasing fireflies on her grandmother's farm. To hauling water up an Ecuadorean cliff side to nourish freshly planted fruit trees. To cheering after cutting her first homegrown artichoke ...